[PCA] NEWS: Botanists sound the alarm as rare species face extinction

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Jul 28 09:15:24 CDT 2008


CLIMATE CHANGE
Botanists sound the alarm as rare species face extinction
Posted on Sat, Jul. 26, 2008
BY GEORGIA TASKER

Six years ago, ecologists at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 
painstakingly gathered the seeds of a vine found only in eight wild spots 
from Palm Beach County through Miami-Dade so they could be grown in a 
nursery and then reestablished in their natural habitat.

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